Criminal profiling

Criminal psychology, forensic technology, and profiling. These three disciplines
have received a wealth of media attention over the past decade. Consequently,
due to public and professional interest, a plethora of books have been published.
The technique of offender profiling, or classifying offenders according to their
behaviors and characteristics, has been developing slowly as a possible investigative
tool since 1841 and the publication of the The Murders in the Rue Morgue
by Edgar Alan Poe, in which detective C.

The purpose of this chapter is to provide information about the criminal intelligence units, the intelligence/analytical cycle which results in finished and useable products for clients, and an array of analytical and investigative tools available to investigators, such as crime analysis, time event charting, telephone record analysis, e-mail intercepts, various approaches to criminal profiling, geoprofiling, financial analysis,...

Mental condition defences have been used in several high-profile and controversial criminal trials in recent years. indeed, mental abnormality is increasingly an important yet complex source of defence within the criminal trial process. The author offers a detailed critical analysis of those defences within the Criminal Law where the accused relies on some form of mental abnormality as a source of defence.

After studying this chapter you will be able to: Recognize types an patterns of burn injuries found in child abuse; define and discuss shaken-baby syndrome; explain munchausen syndrome by proxy; identify types of child molesters, and explain investigative and interview techniques for cases of child molestation; outline types of child pornography; define incest and outline profiles of incestuous fathers; describe the profile of infant abductors;...

Since 1995, the WHO Regional Office for Europe has been committed to reducing the public
health hazards associated with prisons and protecting and promoting health in prisons. Regional
Office reports such as the 2007 Health in prisons: a WHO guide to the essentials in prison health
have combined the latest research and analysis from experts in the field and have raised the
profile of prison health issues.

Over the last 20 years the development and application of genetics has revolutionized
forensic science. In 1984, the analysis of polymorphic regions of DNA produced what
was termed ‘a DNA fingerprint’ [1]. The following year, at the request of the United
Kingdom Home Office, DNA profiling was successfully applied to a real case, when it
was used to resolve an immigration dispute [2]. Following on from this, in 1986, DNA
evidence was used for the first time in a criminal case and identified Colin Pitchfork
as the killer of two school girls in Leicestershire, UK.